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[the_gneech]

Gaming was fun. :) Would you believe they ended up allying with the hill giant (sort of) and slaying hobbits?

The thing of it was, the giant wasn't actually bothering anybody, while the hobbits in question were either murderers, accessories, or hired goons.

Parleying with the giant was particularly fun; he was a 2nd level druid with a unique ability to command vermin, so he was tough and canny -- but not particularly bright. So at any given time, about half of what pholph said to him went flying right over his shaggy head. By negating him as a threat, even tho they didn't actually fight him, they got the full experience for the encounter -- they just didn't get to ransack his lair for loot.

jamesbarrett's wizard also had a particularly bizarre encounter with ... something. Or perhaps it was a vision. Or maybe she's just going nuts. When the cult of the forbidden god of insanity is floating around, you can never be quite sure just what is going on.

Still, aside from that one bit of weirdness, and the grim slaughter of a handful of hobbit criminals, the adventure was quaint, light-hearted adventure all around.

The next one ... well ... is going to be a bit more troublesome.

-The Gneech

Comments

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

A......hobbit murderer? There's something fundamentally wrong with that.

cheers,
Phil

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I suspect Déagol would agree with you!

-The Gneech

[jamesbarrett.livejournal.com]

For the first time in ages, Kyriela used her spells wisely, instead of just blasting away nilly willy. I used to pride myself on creative and useful ways for her to cast spells and not just cast the same old things the same old ways all the time. So her having mending memorized to fix the Inn she damaged with her fireball was a plus, but casting Dispel Magic to remove the enemy wizard's Spider Climb was cake. Then using Dimension Door to get down the stairs ahead of him so she could finish him off with magic missle was sweet too.

It's always fun to start off with her own, private, special spell as well and that situation was what it was made for; a group of enemies surrounding her, jsut out of reach otherwise. Hee. Bet that surprised them all. -Frisk

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Yup, it was a good tactic! And Waldo only had one hit point left, so when Nicky landed on him, that was all she wrote. (It also dispelled Nicky's expeditious retreat, which pretty much sealed his doom.)

-The Gneech

[jamesbarrett.livejournal.com]

Forgot he even cast that! -Frisk

"'Ets Not Rocket Science" "What's a rocket?"

[pholph.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, it was fun tonight. Okay, so I spent half of it going "Oh okay, how do I talk myself out of this one?" And kind of out-of-character looking at the rest of the party with this "Help?" look...

In the end, the problem was solved by Not Combat. I just had to worry that Dreger was going to be a threat now that Druthudd wasn't.. After all, I sort of bypassed a lot of combat...

But oh boy. The usage of a hobbit as a bludgeoning weapon? Awesomeness.

Re: "'Ets Not Rocket Science" "What's a rocket?"

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Dragor will have plenty of other cool things to fight in the not-too-distant future. ;)

-TG

[tehrasha.livejournal.com]

You didnt have to wake him up by sawing his head off did you?